Some mixed news for Viber users on Windows Phone. Although we were recently blessed with a fully-functional Windows Phone 8 “HD” version of the increasing popular VOIP app, we’re still lagging a bit behind our Android and iOS brethren in terms of features and release cycles.

Version 3.0 for Apple and Google devices went live today, bringing new features including more languages, video messages, online status, “last online” feature that shows how long your contact has been offline, brand new stickers, improved UI with an “enhanced photo experience,” and a few other changes.

The good news is “most” of those features will be coming to Windows Phone 8 as well, hopefully in the next three months, maybe sooner. So says the CEO of Viber, Talmon Marco to the site TruTower today.

We suppose that’s great news if you’re going to be looking for some of those enhancements, on the other hand a 2 to 3 month wait may seem like an eternity, so we’re hoping that gap between feature releases narrows as Windows Phone continues to gain popularity.

How are you liking the new Viber? Does the company stand a chance against Skype? Let us know in comments.

Users can pick up Viber HD for Windows Phone here in the Store for free.

I will believe it only when I see it, even then I have to use it and see if the App is actually usable especially after the latest fiasco on WP8 release.
Sorry but Viber's history, actions and development speed cannot allow anyone to be optimistic, neither take their word in terms of release dates seriously.

Why do you get proper notifications for anything else? Lets wait for Blue and hope/pray for a real Notification Center.
Windows Phone 8 and Notifications simply cannot currently co-exist not even in a sentence.

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app?
Had similar issue when I updated from v2.23 to v2.24 on my Lumia 920 and all of a sudden, my phone doesn't rings whenever someone Viber call me.
Did the above and it is working fine again.

It could be that the network you are connected to is blocking Viber's traffic.

1. First, please try uninstalling and reinstalling Viber when connecting to a few different WiFi networks (in order to pinpoint the source of the problem). What are the results?
2. Also, please make sure the following ports are enabled ("forwarded") on your routers or firewalls:
TCP: 5242 + 4244
UDP: 5243 + 9785

(if you are not sure how to enable ports, you may contact your router manufacturer)

Hi,
We wouldn't want to disclose all of our new features :)
We can tell you that our general goal is to incorporate as many features that are currently available on iOS and Android into our Windows Phone 8 app. When we have more concrete news, we'll let you know.

@WPUser111 -
At this stage we conduct all the testing here in our labs, thank you for your offer though!
The development process, as you may know, is one that takes time. We are working hard to have the new features ready as fast as we can. As you can imagine, it is also our great interest to have them ready soon, so our users could enjoy them.

Hi,
More features (like online status, and others) are planned to be gradually added into our WP8 app.
We preferred that our users enjoy several new features, rather than wait and release them all together, after a longer time.

We wouldn't want to guarantee any estimated dates at this stage.
It is naturally also our great interest to have the update release as soon as possible, and we're working around the clock to have it ready :)